Ongoing
| ID | ANO INICIAL | ANO FINAL | DESCRIÇÃO |
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| 1 | 2025 | 2025 | NEURONET - iNtelligent Energy Usage-awaRe Platform sustainable for grEen networking |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Horizon Europe Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 12,394,183 being € 60,000 to UMinho Energy-focused vertical experimentation presents significant challenges, requiring advanced requirements such as comprehensive monitoring through probes and open platforms. More than theoretical laboratory-based simulations are needed to develop production-ready solutions, as real-world environmental variables play a critical role in validating their effectiveness. The state of the art reveals diverse approaches, projects, and collaborative efforts for building testbeds, particularly within the Beyond 5G (B5G) ecosystem. However, while these solutions facilitate experimentation, they need to provide an exceptionally granular level of monitoring or a well-defined closed loop for energy sustainability across heterogeneous computing resources and real-world access networks. To address these gaps, we present the NEURONET (iNtelligent Energy Usage aware platform for green networking) project, which aims to deploy and leverage an intelligent energy-use-focused platform to promote sustainable and green networks using advanced AI/ML techniques. One of the key advances is the integration with MLOps-based platforms, which allows us to validate their algorithms and activate energy-focused closed loops for energy sustainability. NEURONET integrates data from the OPTIMITER monitoring platform, an energy monitoring solution deployed at ITAV facilities in Portugal. Through two use cases, we will test the feasibility of NEURONET for implementing interventions in computational and network resources to minimize energy consumption. Based on NEURONET's results, we aim to create an AI/ML pipeline platform that provides rich insights for various experiments, using the existing infrastructure as a foundation. |
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| 2 | 2024 | 2027 | Intelligent and Efficient Operation and Maintenance System to Support Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Applications in 5G/6G Multi-RAN Networks (iOMS) |
| Role: Coordinator at UMINHO Funding Agency: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 97,864 This project addresses the technical challenges of delivering MXR applications in 5G/6G slices with multiple connectivity across different radio access networks (multi-RAN). To this end, a system will be proposed for the critical role of intelligent operations maintenance (OMS) of the entire 5G/6G infrastructure, using centralized and distributed machine learning (ML) techniques to enhance the orchestration of elastic multi-RAN slices and manage them proactively with minimal human intervention. Simulation and transnational federated testbed experiments will contribute to high-impact validations, paving the way for the implementation of MXR applications in open 5G/6G multi-RAN networks. The project is an international collaboration between Brazilian institutions (UFPA, UNICAMP, and UFRN); Virginia Tech in the United States; University of Minho in Portugal; and Efrei Paris in France. |
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| 3 | 2024 | 2027 | APO DIGITAL SYSTEM 2 - Dissemination and Improvement of Digital Interfaces for Post-Occupancy Assessment of Environmental Quality in Housing |
| Role: Coordinator at FACOM Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estados de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 43,518 Post-occupancy Evaluation (POE) of housing environmental quality is a necessary and relevant topic in national and international research, guided by global and local sustainable development agendas, namely Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7, 11, and 12. Assessment processes have increasingly adopted new information, communication, and digital interface technologies to achieve their objectives, becoming more efficient, educational, and collaborative. Therefore, this research project aims to: (i) improve the APODIGITAL SYSTEM - a digital post-occupancy assessment management system; and (ii) improve and disseminate the housing quality assessment tools: MY APARTMENT and HOW YOU LIVE, both developed in previous research funded by FAPEMIG/CNPq. The improvements include, notably, the use of the Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the tools, aiming to obtain new data and enhance user interaction. The methodology will be supported by Design Science Research (in the foundation, development, and evaluation phases), operationalized by interdisciplinary teams from the fields of Architecture and Urban Planning, Design, and Computer Science. The project will provide users with MEP tools on "sustainable living" via the internet and smartphones, exploring interactive resources and user-friendly, collaborative, and intuitive digital interfaces. Using the information collected by the system, the goal is to provide statistical and scientific data that can improve the environmental quality of housing projects, as well as guide the establishment of public policies, standards, and legislation. It will also serve as a means of information and knowledge for system users, providing access to data and questions on aspects related to "living" and its impacts on the environment in which they live. |
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| 10 | 2021 | 2026 | Slicing Future Internet Infrastructures (SFI2) |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 185,491 being € 69,903 to UFU Technological evolution centered on the concepts of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and, more recently, the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks, known as 5G, has had a significant impact on the Internet. This impact stems not only from the creation of new technologies, communication protocols, security solutions, energy efficiency mechanisms, and other technologies, but also from the need for these innovations to work together with each other and with the legacy Internet. As a result, several experimental environments with varying scopes have emerged in Brazil, aiming to research subsets of technologies, including: FIBRE, experimentation with alternatives to the current Internet architecture; FUTEBOL, experimentation in telecommunications networks involving optical and wireless communications; CloudNEXT, experimentation in cloud computing with bare-metal hardware resource provisioning; FIWARE, a platform for developing future applications based on the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and cloud computing; 5GINFIRE, experimentation with 5G networks based on NFV and cloud use; and finally, NECOS, focusing on slicing and virtualizing cloud computing resources. In this scenario, the main objective of this project is to provide a solution for delivering advanced network scenarios and computing resource allocation through slicing these experimental infrastructures. This enables the simplified creation of complex networks with minimal configuration effort, based on the intelligent orchestration of this multi-domain slicing, offering a Slice-as-a-Service (SlaaS) for developers of Future Internet applications. |
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Finished
| ID | ANO INICIAL | ANO FINAL | DESCRIÇÃO |
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| 4 | 2022 | 2024 | APO DIGITAL SYSTEM - Digital interfaces for post-occupancy assessment of environmental quality in housing |
| Role: Coordinator at FACOM Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estados de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 15,463 Environmental quality in housing has been a relevant topic in national and international research, notably guided by global and local sustainable development agendas, aiming for its complete achievement. In other words, it is essential to assess the environmental quality of housing, as housing influences multiple aspects of residents' daily lives, profoundly impacting their quality of life and their expectations and possibilities for future development. Furthermore, evaluation processes have increasingly adopted new information, communication, and interface technologies to achieve their objectives, becoming more efficient, educational, and collaborative. Therefore, this research project aims to: (i) improve the APODIGITAL Web SYSTEM—Post-Occupancy Evaluation System in digital media; and (ii) develop an artifact that allows for the assessment of the environmental quality of apartment buildings in use. The feasibility of this artifact, tested in a case study in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, can support its future replication nationwide. The aim is to develop an assessment tool (artifact) focused on item 11 (sustainable cities and communities) of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs/2030 Agenda). Design Science Research will support the methodology and will be implemented by interdisciplinary teams from the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Design, and Computer Science. The project will provide users with an assessment tool for "apartment living" via the internet and smartphones, exploring interactive resources and user-friendly, collaborative, and intuitive digital interfaces. Using the information collected by the system, the aim is to provide statistical and scientific data that can improve the environmental quality of projects in this area, as well as guide the establishment of public policies, standards, and legislation. |
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| 5 | 2022 | 2025 | Intelligent Management of Autonomous Network Slices Across Multiple Domains (INTERCESSION) |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 15,146 Sharing network resources is essential to offering personalized connectivity for future applications. One technique that has received significant effort in the context of 5G is network slicing. Slicing techniques are state-of-the-art in private domains, such as data centers or specialized network segments. However, challenges persist, such as the separation of data and control planes in these slices, especially in behavior across multiple domains. A network slice must maintain connectivity and service level agreement parameters even under adverse conditions. Challenges include specifying and monitoring parameters that support Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based mechanisms to act in real time on network slices, allowing them to behave autonomously. Another emerging challenge is the need to research technologies and methods for their management across multiple domains. This project aims to research, design, and pilot an architecture for the intelligent management of autonomous network slices deployed across multiple domains using AI and autonomous computing techniques. This architecture will utilize monitoring techniques capable of measuring metrics across different domains and converging them so that network slices between operators and their internal segments are maintained autonomously and configured, optimized, and curated without human intervention. To achieve this, it is envisaged to integrate community-accepted methods, such as the NASOR framework and the SONAr architecture, as the basis for managing autonomous network slices across multiple domains. Using three research fronts focused on AI, network slice monitoring and management, and an experimental approach, the project will build on existing software components and incorporate new methods and techniques developed in these research fronts, contributing to advances in this strategic area of knowledge. |
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| 6 | 2022 | 2023 | Smart Smoke-Dry Process |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI) em conjunto com Brazil Foods (BRF) Type of Funding: Public and Private - Total Funding: € 67,961 Through the use of IoT and AI, this project aims to reduce weight variability in the cooking and smoking processes of processed meats. Conducted in conjunction with Brazil Foods (BRF) and supported by the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), it is a project involving industry, government, and academia with Industry 4.0 solutions. |
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| 7 | 2022 | 2023 | Telco Evolution |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Instituto de Inovação BRAIN Type of Funding: Private - Total Funding: € 11,124 The overall objective of this project involves research activities related to the evolution of telecommunications networks through the use of architectures, methods, and techniques grouped into software components that can later be integrated into the telecommunications network. It is an international collaborative project carried out jointly by BRAIN, the Algar Telecom Innovation Institute, the Telecommunications Institute of the University of Aveiro in Portugal (ITAV), and the Federal University of Fuerteventura (UFU). BRAIN is the project's funder. |
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| 8 | 2021 | 2023 | BRASIL6G |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (MCTI) e Rede Nacional de Pesquisa (RNP) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 3,166,359 being € 55,534 to UFU The objective of this project is to make scientific and technological contributions in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to develop advanced solutions for 6th-generation mobile communications networks for the telecommunications sector in Brazil. These contributions will be made through proposals for technical solutions that can be incorporated into the future standard of these networks, as well as through the training of human resources in this area. Another objective is to define the necessary steps for the future generation of mobile networks to be capable of meeting the applications and use cases important for the country's economic and social development. This project also aims to ensure mastery of a technology crucial to national security. The fundamentals of 6G networks go beyond telecommunications concepts and encompass artificial intelligence, spatial positioning, sensing, image processing, high-definition maps, and smart materials. This research project will explore these different fronts, proposing technological solutions and applications that are relevant to the national scenario and training qualified personnel to implement 6G networks in Brazil. |
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| 9 | 2021 | 2021 | VINEVI: An Intelligent Compute and Network Monitoring Architecture |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Rede Nacional de Pesquisa (RNP) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 2,330 Understanding the state of a system is essential to ensuring reliability and stability. Information about system health and performance not only helps entire teams react to problems but also provides security when making changes to their services. One of the best ways to gain system insight is through robust monitoring that gathers metrics, data visualization, and alerts operators when something appears to be amiss. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology area that is significantly influencing the world of computer networks. This technology is changing the way networks are designed, managed, and especially monitored, transforming the networking industry toward a virtualization approach. Beyond the network, application and service monitoring is also essential. The combination of network and application monitoring, along with the use of artificial intelligence techniques such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), is a fundamental component for current and future networks, where virtualization and containerization will increasingly be present. The Virtualized Network Vision Architecture (VINEVI) project aims to intelligently monitor infrastructure, networks, and applications in both the cloud and fog. The VINEVI platform combines widely used market components for monitoring with Packet Vision, a CNN-based technique that classifies network traffic using computer vision techniques. The project's objective is to deploy and test this platform on the network maintained by RNP. |
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| 11 | 2019 | 2024 | New Materials and Technologies for the Industry and a Connected Society (UFU-CAPES.PrInt-P7) |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 408,421 This project is part of the UFU Internationalization Program (UFU-CAPES.PrInt). The project aims to prospect and implement enabling technological solutions for application in industry and in a society in which people, machines, and systems are interconnected. In this context, new technologies will be developed for the production of new materials, smart materials, and nanomaterials, aiming for their application in a wide range of industrial areas. Computing and computational modeling will be used to evaluate the properties and mechanical behavior of materials applied to the oil and aeronautics industries. Employing computational technologies from a wide range of fields to support new networks and future applications, such as those based on the Internet of Things, using techniques such as machine learning and bioinspired computing. |
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| 12 | 2020 | 2023 | Use of Artificial Intelligence to Increase Productivity in Welding (Smart Welding) |
| Role: Coordinator at FACOM Funding Agency: Petróleo Brasileiro (PETROBRAS) Type of Funding: Private - Total Funding: € 626,262 The overall objective of this project is to use Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence combined with dedicated instrumentation and control for the development of welding processes with high productivity. Still, requiring low investment (compared to non-traditional processes), for use in welded construction and assembly of structures (C&M), as well as in maintenance procedures, all these applications focused on the Oil, Gas and Biofuels Sector, as well as the Naval Sector (lower risks of failure and investment, qualifying them for use in the short and medium term). |
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| 13 | 2019 | 2021 | AgroConnect: A Large Scale IoT Pilot in Agriculture |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) em conjunto com NOKIA Type of Funding: Public and Private - Total Funding: € 388,350 being € 23,301 to UFU The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fundamental technological pillar in the next generation of services and applications that will merge the real and virtual worlds. Large-scale pilots allow for the integration of different solutions and testing them in a real environment to evaluate the impact of technologies, their benefits, and the challenges associated with their application. In Brazil, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is promoting a series of large-scale IoT pilots. The objective of the AgroConnect project is to develop a pilot platform capable of integrating different Internet of Things (IoT)-based solutions focused on agribusiness and to test various connectivity technologies that enable monitoring, through sensors and various equipment, of the rural environment with a view to increasing productivity and profitability of field production. To this end, the project will deploy various IoT solutions on a model farm and build a connectivity network that will allow data collection using different communication technologies, seeking to conduct simulations and tests, aiming to identify the best-performing technologies based on the conditions of use. AgroConnect also seeks to identify opportunities and barriers to the use of various IoT solutions, taking into account security and privacy aspects, to create a set of lessons learned and good practices to contribute to the definition of a sustainable business model that involves IoT solutions and that allows their diffusion in the field. |
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| 14 | 2018 | 2022 | BRASIL5G and Beyond |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (MCTI) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 58,252 The BRASIL5G project aims to carry out various actions in conjunction with other projects and initiatives involving multiple Brazilian and international stakeholders related to 5G, such as the government (various ministries, standardization and regulatory bodies), academia, industry, civil society organizations, businesses, and society in general, present in multiple verticals. The project aims to contribute to the formation of a Brazilian ecosystem related to 5G and its evolution. |
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| 15 | 2018 | 2021 | Testbed for Experimentation in Industry 4.0 (TIED4.0) |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 58,252 The TIED4.0 project aims to unite physical, technical, and human resources for the research and development of innovative technologies, devices, and applications for Industry 4.0. This project creates and utilizes an experimental environment (testbed) that allows for business development based on various solutions tailored to the needs of companies, supported by startups and academia. From its inception, the project emerged from the collaboration of the different sectors represented by Brasil Foods (BRF), BRAIN, FIEMG, and UFU. TIED4.0 aims to develop a technical and business model for exploring Industry 4.0, leveraging technological convergence and collaboration among partners. This initiative focuses on integrating new industries and facilities, thereby expanding its impact on the Brazilian industry. |
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| 16 | 2017 | 2020 | Future Internet Exchange Point (FIXP) |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 29,837 The Internet is undoubtedly one of the most important artifacts of human ingenuity. However, its core protocols remain the same as they were decades ago, hindering its modernization. Concerned about this stagnation, many initiatives around the world have initiated studies of new protocols to replace the current TCP/UDP/IP. These are called Future Internet Architectures (FIA). Among them are the Brazilian proposals ETArch and NovaGenesis (NG). In Europe and the United States, there are dozens of projects, including RINA, XIA, and CCNx. Each FIA has a particular focus and its own set of requirements, principles, etc. All of them advance in several aspects compared to the current Internet. Integrating all elements into a single proposal seems impossible at the current technological stage, and many question whether it is truly necessary. Therefore, it is possible to expect a set of FIAs to coexist with each other and with the current Internet (including IPv6). This project aims to study scenarios for the combined use of the NG, RINA, and ETArch architectures, specifying and implementing interconnection points, called Future Internet Exchange Points (FIXPs). The project also aims to implement a multi-FIX socket at a point of presence. Finally, a simple application will be developed to test the interconnection of FIAs through RNP's FIBRE network. |
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| 17 | 2017 | 2019 | FI-GUARDIAN/Hydro: Environmental IoT Combo Specialized in Water Resources |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas/Rio de Janeiro (SEBRAE/RJ) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 23,301 The project's objective is to develop IoT devices specialized in environmental sensing for intelligent water management. The devices will be capable of utilizing various communication technologies, such as SIGFOX and NarrowBand IoT, and will be prepared for the next generation of mobile telecommunications networks, known as 5G. These devices will be able to communicate with each other and with an IoT platform using APIs and open data models based on FIWARE technology. The hardware and software solution, called an environmental combo, will enable georeferenced quantitative and qualitative water monitoring throughout the production and consumption chain. |
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| 18 | 2017 | 2020 | Evolving FIRE into a 5G-Oriented Experimental Playground for Vertical industries (5GINFIRE) |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: Horizon 2020 (H2020) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 970,868 being € 67,961 to UFU The primary goal of this project is to build and operate an open and extensible 5G NFV-based reference ecosystem (Open5G-NFV) of experimental facilities that not only integrates existing Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities with new vertical-specific facilities, but also lays the foundation for instantiating and experimenting with all-software vertical-sector architectures. The initial deployment of the Open5G-NFV ecosystem will be driven by the automotive sector deployed on next-generation 5G infrastructures; however, it will also be as generic as possible to accommodate other vertical sectors, such as Smart Cities. |
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| 19 | 2015 | 2017 | FI-GUARDIAN - Scalable and georeferenced platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ) em parceria com a VM9 Type of Funding: Public and Private - Total Funding: € 16,311 The project aims to expand the FI-GUARDIAN platform toward the Internet of Things (IoT) by coupling different digital communication channels with various stakeholders (citizens, organizations, and government agencies) to monitoring and control processes based on remote sensing networks. The project uses an experimental approach centered on the use of the FIWARE platform. |
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| 20 | 2014 | 2016 | FIWARE: Future Internet Core Platform |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: 7th Framework Programme (FP7) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 41,397,049 being € 30,017 to UFU Using a dissemination model focused on the potential local ICT ecosystem, the project aims to create the conditions to support the development of innovative services and applications by local entrepreneurs. This will be accomplished by leveraging the software components (Generic Enablers (GE) and Specific Enablers (SE)) created within the FIWARE project, aiming to reduce time to market. The project will expand FIWARE's infrastructure through the deployment of FILAB nodes in Brazil, creating the conditions for entrepreneurs to reach the market. The research work aims to collaborate with initiatives related to the Future of the Internet, fostering the use of technology that can enable a better life by exploring opportunities related to Smart Cities, the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Mobile Applications and Devices. These actions will contribute to the implementation of the Brazilian Regional Centers for Future Internet Innovation (FIILAB). |
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| 21 | 2014 | 2018 | Adaptive Architecture for Convergent Networks (A2RCON) |
| Role: Researcher Funding Agency: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 24,650 Telecommunications are currently undergoing a technological revolution, particularly in the field of convergent communications. The rapid transition from successive generations of mobile communications, with the shift to 3G and 4G (or LTE) technologies, and soon 5G, has imposed enormous challenges on operators and the entire communications industry. The technological reality reveals profound changes in the technologies present in operator networks: the shift to packet networks; SIP technologies; aspects of access control, identity management, and single-sign-on; heterogeneous access to integration with content distribution systems; triple-play and quad-play offerings—these are some of the factors that have led to significant changes in operator networks. The A2RCON project's main objective is to develop a reconfigurable network architecture, optimized for future usage scenarios, where Software-Defined Networking (SDN) mechanisms are applied to vital aspects of the network to provide efficient video support. Among its specific objectives, the project aims to develop access and transport mechanisms and infrastructure that allow supporting the enormous multimedia traffic that networks are beginning to face, and an approach that enables the use of evolutionary (reconfigurable) infrastructures, minimizing the time and cost of evolution of the converged network, maintaining proximity to international trends of future 5G networks. |
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| 22 | 2012 | 2013 | EDOBRA: Extending and Deploying OFELIA in BRAzil |
| Role: Coordinator at UFU Funding Agency: 7th Framework Programme (FP7) Type of Funding: Public - Total Funding: € 4,493,115 being € 52,934 to UFU The EDOBRA project brings together a team of researchers from three different institutions in Portugal and Brazil: the Telecommunications Institute (IT) in Aveiro, Portugal; the University of São Paulo (USP); and the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), both in Brazil. This proposal aims to expand the capabilities of software-defined networking approaches, such as OpenFlow, by enabling support for the simultaneous use of different access networks using mechanisms based on IEEE 802.21 and its integration with the Entity Title Architecture. This next-generation network architecture provides multicast and mobility based on this OpenFlow substrate. Furthermore, EDOBRA aims to expand the physical coverage of the OFELIA experimental facility by deploying a new node in Brazil, which will develop research and experimentation in the future Internet, making these approaches available to the entire research community. |
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